Periodic Reporting for period 3 - RUTTER (Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth)

The RUTTER Project explores the idea that a global picture of the Earth emerged in the 16th century as the result of regular long distance sea travels. By 'global picture' is meant here the conception of the Earth as a single coherent object, epistemically congruent...